For me personally, I have a really weird phenomenon that happens to me when I get under 7 hours of sleep, and that is: I get 8 to 9 headaches the next day (I've actually counted). But if I get less than about five, I'm pretty energized. But then I need 8+ hours the next night. I can't run consecutive days on low sleep.
But I think a lot of it, for me, is psychological, because I'm very quantitatively-based. Like, if I got 8 hours I will tell myself I feel great, and if I got less, I will complain internally all day.
I'm pretty anal about my sleep, and sort of wish I wasn't. I'd rather just ditch all those preconceived notions I carry around and just let myself feel however I want to regardless of how much sleep I'm running on...but it's inevitable--I crunch the numbers.
That was rambling. Sorry about that.
PS: I'm taking an acting class this semester. When we layed down on the floor today to breathe, tears almost came to my eyes.
I think my average a night when not in a show is 7. If I have late-night rehearsals it's typically between 5 and 6. If I get more than 7, my body remembers what it's like to get more sleep and I'm dragging all day and exhausted after school. Any less and I just psyche myself out by telling myself I actually got more sleep than I thought I did. That seems to work fairly well.
Though people think I'm nuts because I get up between 5 and 530 so I can stretch and breathe and stuff we do in YC before school. That also wakes me up every morning.
Not sure if it helps you but thus concludes my cough syrup induced rambling.
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we totally found foust sleeping there one day. I still don't know how long he had been there... but his car was broken...
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But I think a lot of it, for me, is psychological, because I'm very quantitatively-based. Like, if I got 8 hours I will tell myself I feel great, and if I got less, I will complain internally all day.
I'm pretty anal about my sleep, and sort of wish I wasn't. I'd rather just ditch all those preconceived notions I carry around and just let myself feel however I want to regardless of how much sleep I'm running on...but it's inevitable--I crunch the numbers.
That was rambling. Sorry about that.
PS: I'm taking an acting class this semester. When we layed down on the floor today to breathe, tears almost came to my eyes.
I miss you.
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I also like to go to bed at 9 pm and be an old lady, but hey, whatever gets you off.
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Though people think I'm nuts because I get up between 5 and 530 so I can stretch and breathe and stuff we do in YC before school. That also wakes me up every morning.
Not sure if it helps you but thus concludes my cough syrup induced rambling.
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